SOUTHFIELD - Student teams from Troy High School in Oakland County and Portage Central Middle School in Kalamazoo County were named Michigan winners of the Verizon Innovative App Challenge, a national competition in which students develop a mobile application concept that addresses a need or problem in their local schools or communities. Now in its
DETROIT ? The good news is Compuware Corp. met Wall Street expectations of posting 11 cents a share for the third fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31. The bad news is both revenue and profits fell for the state?s largest tech company. Here?s the fine print: Net income in the third fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31
PLEASANT RIDGE ? The rising popularity of smartphones made ePrize, the global promotions company based in suburban Detroit, to change its name last week to HelloWorld to reflect the new ways people engage digitally. ePrize decided to leave 15 years of brand equity on the table for a name that better reflects the company?s recent
LANSING - One day after Governor Rick Snyder unveiled his proposal for the state to commit $350 million over the next 20 years toward the pensions of retired Detroit city government employees to mitigate reductions to those pensions due to the city's bankruptcy, several suburban Detroit legislators are asking for more specifics before committing to
TROY ? Join the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce on Feb. 6 for a discussion on the changing dynamics of doing business in Mexico, including manufacturing trends and fiscal and legal reforms. Open to the public and supported by Automation Alley, Global Development Partners, Inc. (GDP) and Clayton & McKervey, P.C., this is a must-attend event
DETROIT - Governor Rick Snyder is seeking federal approval of 50,000 employment-based visas over a five year period in hopes of bringing immigrants to live and work in Detroit. If approved by the federal government, and Snyder was headed to Washington after Thursday's announcement to lobby for the approval, immigrants receiving an EB-2 visa under
SAN FRANCISCO - One security researcher has proven how Snapchat's new verification system can be hacked, just days after its Captcha-style image verification debuted. Steve Hickson used his knowledge of how computers recognize images and template matching to show how a computer could fool the new security tool, CNET News.Com reported. "I spent around 30
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Thursday approved a settlement agreement granting American Transmission Company and ATC Management Inc. a certificate to construct a 138 kilovolt overhead transmission line from Holmes Township in Menominee County to the Old Mead Substation in Delta County. "The new transmission line is intended to improve electric reliability significantly
CUPERTINO, Ca. ? Apple has filed a patent application that would try to gauge some of your physical and behavioral facets to serve up ads that may appeal to you. "Inferring user mood based on user and group characteristic data," an Apple patent application published Thursday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, CNET News.Com
NEW YORK - Prosecutors have charged 13 defendants with using card skimmers installed at gas stations to steal more than $2 million from customers throughout the southern United States. The ring allegedly used card readers installed inside gas pumps to record payment card data and PINs from customers, CNET News.Com reported. The skimmers were installed